Broadway alums Will Roland, Olivia Puckett, Erik Lochtefeld, and more star in the dark comedy presented by 59E59 Theaters and Less Than Rent Theatre.
Graham Techler’s The Panic of ’29 begins previews in Theater B at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters. Co-presented with Less Than Rent Theatre, the comedy will open July 31, and play through August 20.
Dot, secretary to the New York Stock Exchange’s Vice President, she skips town following the stock market crash in this dark comedy. Joined by a group of misfits, Dot goes on a decades-spanning journey to escape the events of this wild alternate reality of the Great Crash that ended the Roaring Twenties.
Starring are Will Roland (Be More Chill), Olivia Puckett (Dear Evan Hansen), Erik Lochtefeld (King Kong), Joyelle Nicole Johnson (Love Joy), Jaela Cheeks-Lomax, Rachel B. Joyce (The Collision), Julia Knitel (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Jared Loftin (tick, tick…BOOM!), Jack Maloney (Pippin), Will Turner (SeaWife), and RJ Vaillancourt (Saint Joan).
Devin Kessler (Yes), Brian Morabito (Romans), Jacob Presson (Our Town), and Rachel Ravel (Halston) serve as understudies for the production.
Max Friedman serves as both director and set designer for the production. Also serving on the creative team are costume designer Corina Chase, lighting designer Jamie Roderick, sound designer Margaret Montagna, props designer Brandy Hoang Collier, and dramaturg Nora Brigid Monahan. Orchestrations and arrangements are by Barrett Riggins, and fight and intimacy direction are by Lexi Orphanos. Karen Schleifer serves as production stage manager, with Kate Holland as stage manager. McKenna Quigley Harrington is associate producer.
For tickets and more information, visit 59E59.org.
